System for rapid reduction of telemetric data

This paper describes automatic telemetric data reduction equipment being developed by the Instrumentation Division at the U. S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Corona, Calif., under joint sponsorship of the Navy Bureaus of Ordnance and Aeronautics. The design of some of the components has been completed and checked and will be described in detail in this report. The high-speed analog to digital converter is being procured from a commercial source. A high-capacity magnetic tape recorder is not currently available on the market for recording data at the maximum rate (30,000 samples per second) provided by other components of the system. It is expected that a suitable magnetic recorder will become available in the near future.